Letter to the World

Emily Dickinson wrote “This is my letter to the World/that never wrote to me.” This shows she is a very egocentric person. She believe getting a response is an absolutely necessary thing for the world to do. (ok, I need to admit I am like that sometimes). Also, from the tone, it seems like she has complaints of the world. She doesn't like how something turns out. We can also assume that she is a recluse, lonely women, as the world, she say, doesn't pay too much attention to her. It may be the world fail to recognize her in the way she do to herself, so she believe the world is in debt to her and need to respond to her. The failure in doing so makes her feel excluded and dispatched from the rest of the world, which is a sad thing. It is true that her talent is really covered up until 70 years after her death. It may also mean the feeling she have when all her friends leave her, leaving the world, dying. This statement has several different tones possible to be interpreted. The most serious and common way is through the pessimistic and sad way.  Many believe it is because all her friends, the people that compose the world she knows, dies one by one, and by losing them, she can no longer get response from those people.